Happiness Workout

April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated

The ultimate measure of a man is not

where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,

but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whatever your life's work is,

do it well.

A man should do his job so well

that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;

only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate;

only love can do that.

You are the author of your own life story.

--Anonymous

It is better to fill life in years,

then filling years in life.

--Anonymous

Be who you are

and say what you feel,

because those who mind don't matter

and those who matter don't mind.

--Dr. Seuss

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
--Dr. Seuss

Never play with the feelings of others,

because you may win the game,

but the risk is that you will surely loose the person for life time.

--Shakespeare

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow!

But it means that they have the ability to deal with it.

--Shakespeare

The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people,

but because of the silence of good people!

--Napoleon

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me, its because of them I did it myself.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

It takes a touch of genius,

and a lot of courage

to move in the opposite direction.

A clever person solves a problem.

A wise person avoids it.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as though everything is a miracle.

If friendship is your weakest point then

you are the strongest person in the world.

--Abraham Lincoln

You can have anything you want;

if you want it badly enough.

You can be anything you want to be,

do anything you set out to accomplish

if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

--Abraham Lincoln

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
--Abraham Lincoln

Opportunities are like sunrises,

if you wait too long you can miss them.

--William Arthur

When you are in the light, everything follows you,

but when you enter into the dark,

even your own shadow doesn't follow you.

--Adolf Hitler

It is very easy to defeat someone,

but it is very hard to win someone.

--Dr Abdul kalaam

It always seems impossible,

until it is done.

--Nelson Mandela

The difference between

a successful person and others

is not a lack of strength,

not a lack of knowledge,

but rather in a lack of will.

--Vince Lombardi

We would accomplish many more things

if we did not think of them as impossible.

--Vince Lombardi

There will be plenty of time to sleep when you are dead.
Life is for living, so wake up and perform.

--Benjamin Franklin

Without continual growth and progress,

such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

--Benjamin Franklin

Content makes poor men rich;

discontentment makes rich men poor.

--Benjamin Franklin

Success; it 's what you do,

with what you've got.

--Woody Hayes

It had long since come to my attention

that people of accomplishment rarely

sat back and let things happen to them.

They went out and happened to things.

--Leonardo da Vinci

The most successful people are

those who do all year long

what they would otherwise do

on their summer vacation.

I dreamed impossible dreams.

And the dreams turned out beyond

anything I could possibly imagine.

--Hugh Hefner

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Anyone can become angry. That is easy.

But to be angry with the right person,

to the right degree,

at the right time,

for the right purpose and in the right way;

that is not easy.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
--Aristotle

You know you are on the road to success

if you would do your job,

and not be paid for it.

The biggest adventure you can ever take

is to live the life of your dreams.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do.

Fail at it. Try again.

Do better the second time.

The only people who never tumble

are those who never mount the high wire.

This is your moment. Own it.

What God intended for you

goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

The greatest discovery of all time is that

a person can change his future

by merely changing his attitude.

Surround yourself with only people

who are going to lift you higher.

Be thankful for what you have;

you'll end up having more.

If you concentrate on what you don't have,

you will never, ever have enough.

If you give people tools,

[and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity,

they will develop things in ways

that will surprise you very much

beyond what you might have expected.

--Bill Gates

If you're not making mistakes,

then you're not doing anything.

--John Wooden

Our obligation is to give meaning to life.

--Elie Wiesel

If my mind can conceive it,

and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

--Muhammad Ali

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out;

it's the pebble in your shoe.

--Muhammad Ali

It's the repetition of affirmations

that leads to belief.

And once that belief becomes a deep conviction,

things begin to happen.

--Muhammad Ali

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

--Wayne Gretzky

You get treated in life the way

you teach people to treat you.

--Wayne Dyer

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

--Pope John Paul II

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

--Babe Ruth

When it is obvious that

the goals cannot be reached,

don't adjust the goals,

adjust the action steps.

--Confucius

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

--Confucius

Just as a cautious businessman avoids

investing all his capital in one concern,

so wisdom would probably admonish us

also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

--Sigmund Freud

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Live the life you have imagined.

Think big, think new, and think again: It is not what you look at that matters, it is what you see.
--Henry David Thoreau

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

--Walt Disney

I dream,

I test my dreams against my beliefs,

I dare to take risks,

and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

--Walt Disney

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
--Walt Disney

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

Make the most of yourself,

for that is all there is of you.

--Ancient Sioux Indian Proverb

With the past, I have nothing to do;
not with the future. I live now.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,

nor the most intelligent,

but the one most responsive to change.

--Charles Darwin

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,

but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

--Maria Robinson

I became an optimist when I discovered

that I wasn't going to win any more games

by being anything else.

--Earl Weaver

Your present circumstances

don't determine where you can go;

they merely determine where you start.

--Nido Qubein

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

--William Blake

Are you doing what you're doing today

because you want to do it,

or because it's what you were doing yesterday?

--Dr. Phil

In the business world,

the rear view mirror is always clearer

than the windshield.

--Warren Buffett

You want someone,

who can think about problems

that haven't yet existed before.

--Warren Buffett

A business has to be involving;

it has to be fun,

and needs to exercise your creative instincts.

--Richard Branson

Know the difference:

financially stable & financially independent

--Unknown

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

--Unknown

"In life/work we say

'Never say never and never say always.'

because funny things happen.

All you can do is give a statistical opinion."

--Mr R.

Improvement is always possible.

--The Satir Change Model

“What do you expect from me?” and

“What can I expect from you?”

This conversation topic works well

for any discussion on relationships.

If you think you can, you can.

And if you think you can't, you're right.

--Mary Kay Ash

Pretend that every single person

you meet has a sign around his or her neck

that says: "Make me feel important.",

Not only will you succeed in sales,

you will succeed in life.

--Mary Kay Ash

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly,
but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
--Mary Kay Ash

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak,

Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

--Sir Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get,

but we make a life by what we give.

--Sir Winston Churchill

Life isn't about finding yourself.

Life is about creating yourself.

--George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable

but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

--George Bernard Shaw

Some men see things as they are and ask why.
Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
--George Bernard Shaw

If you don’t know where you are going,

any path will take you there.

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Keep your thoughts positive, they become your words.
Keep your words positive, they become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive, it becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive, they becomes your value.
Keep your values positive, they becomes your destiny.

--Mahatma Gandhi

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
--Mahatma Gandhi
The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of the questions that you dare to ask. Are you asking the right questions? Are you asking the right people? You can’t get answers, without questions; you can’t make progress, without an inquiring mind.

Enthusiasm is excitement

with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

--Bo Bennett

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

And then go and do that.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

--Harold Whitman

Life is full of obstacle illusions.

--Grant Frazier

All things are possible until they are proved impossible

and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

--Pearl S. Buck

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

--Pearl S. Buck

The mind is its own place,

and in itself,

can make heaven of Hell,

and a hell of Heaven.

--John Milton

Of all the things you wear,

your expression is the most important.

--Janet Lane

"Promise me you'll always remember

You're braver than you believe,

and stronger than you seem,

and smarter than you think." Christopher Robin to Pooh

--A. A. Milne

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being,

you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

--Abraham Maslow

Every child is an artist.

The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

--Pablo Picasso

Good judgment comes from experience;

experitence comes from bad judgment.

--Frederick P. Brooks

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself,

the day you stop making any excuses,

that's the day you start to the top.

--O. J. Simpson

If you limit your choices

only to what seems possible or reasonable,

you disconnect yourself from what you truly want,

and all that is left is compromise.

--Robert Fritz

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

--George Eliot

No matter what the problem is,

it's always a people problem.

--Geraldm Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders.

Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."

-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Take chances, make mistakes.

That's how you grow.

Pain nourishes your courage.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

-–Mary Tyler Moore

If you don’t go after what you want,

you’ll never have it.

If you don’t ask,

the answer is always no.

If you don’t step forward,

you’re always in the same place.

-−Nora Roberts

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.

I've lost almost 300 games.

Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life.

And that is why I succeed.

-−Michael Jordan

Do what you can with what you have where you are.
--Theodore Roosevelt

Nobody can make you feel inferior,

without your consent.

-−Eleanor Roosevelt

It took me a long time,

not to judge myself,

through someone else's eyes.

-−Sally Field

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed

and the sky didn't fall down.

-−Allen H. Neuharth

Hope never abandons you,

you abandon it.

-−George Weinberg

Life is 10% of what happens to me

and 90% of how I react to it.

-−John Maxwell

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards;

they try to have more things,

or more money,

in order to do more of what they want,

so they will be happier.

The way it actually works is the reverse.

You must first be who you really are,

then do what you need to do,

in order to have what you want.

--Margaret Young

Success is no accident.

It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice

and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

--Pele

No act of kindness,
no matter how small,
is ever wasted.
--Aesop, from The Lion and the Mouse

Laugh and the world laughs with you,
weep and you weep alone.
--Unknown

Choose the life that is most useful,
and habit will make it the most agreeable.
--Sir Francis Bacon

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
--Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)

Being strong means rejoicing in who you are, complete with imperfections.
--Margaret Woodhouse

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.
--May V. Smith

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
--Mikhail Gorbachev

So do not worry about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough troubles of its own.
--Matthew 6:34

If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved, worrying will do you no good.
--Shantideva

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
--Richard Carlson

If you completely put aside every form of belief, then there is no fear whatsoever.
--Jiddu Krishnamurty

Fear is there simply because you are not living with life, you are living in your mind.
--Sadhguru(Jaggi Vasudev)

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.
--Osho

You are either in the past or in future;
both are non-existent.
You can’t do anything with the past, nor with the future.
All that you can do is with the present,
and if you are engaged somewhere else,
it simply slips by and you have missed the train.
--Osho

There is no such thing as bad weather,
just different kinds of good weather.
--Colonel Sanders

Too many people overvalue
what they are not and
undervalue what they are.
--Malcolm S. Forbes

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
--Satchel Paige (Major League Baseball rookie at age 42. Pitched at age 60)

Go to the people.
Learn from them.
Live with them.
Start with what they know.
Build with what they have.
The best of leaders when the job is done,
when the task is accomplished,
the people will say we have done it ourselves.
--Lao Tzu

When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others,
you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.
--Zig Ziglar

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves week, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

--Swami Vivekananda

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

--Confucius

Work hard, but not just to please your masters when they are watching. Work with enthusiasm, as though you were working for God rather than for people.
--Ephesians

None of our men are ‘experts’. We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. The moment one gets into the ‘expert’ state of mind a great number of things become impossible.
--Henry Ford Sr.

The moment one gets into the “expert” state of mind a great number of things becomes impossible.

--Henry Ford Sr.

In beginners’ mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.

--Shunryu Suzuki

The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
--Antoine de Saint – Exupery

Ours is a divine journey; therefore,
this journey has neither a beginning nor an end.
This journey has a goal,
but it does not stop at any goal,
for it has come to realize that today’s goal is only the starting point of tomorrow’s journey.
--Sri Chinmoy

Beautiful crafted words have the power to captivate the mind. A sweet-tongued man is loved by one and all. Audience is always attracted towards those who can speak efficiently and effectively.
--Sama Veda

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
--Rudyard Kipling

The ways to think about this big idea may just be ...infinite.
--Kid's book "Infinity and Me" by Kate Hosford and Gabi Swiatkowska

To be a champion you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
--Sugar Ray Robinson

Happiness Quotes

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Happiness Quotes

Life lessons

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life,

the whole aim and end of human existence.

Different men seek after happiness

in different ways and by different means,

and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

"Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect...

It means you have decided to see beyond imperfection..."

--X

I'm going to be happy today,

Though the skies may be cloudy and gray

No matter what may come my way

I'm going to be happy today.

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The truest greatness lies in being kind,

the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I'm happy tonight.

I'm not worried about anything.

I'm not fearing any man.

April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated

We must be doing something to be happy.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when

what you think,

what you say

and what you do are in harmony.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Just as a cautious businessman avoids

investing all his capital in one concern,

so wisdom would probably admonish us

also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

--Sigmund Freud

The world is my country,

all mankind are my brethren,

and to do good is my religion.

--Thomas Paine

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,

you would never think a negative thought.

--Peace Pilgrim

There are two ways to live

you can live as

if nothing is a miracle;

you can live as

if everything is a miracle.

A happy man is

too satisfied with the present

to dwell too much on the future.

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance,

because you have a mode of living in which we find

the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined.

Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being,

and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.

What I am looking for

is not out there, it is in me.

--Helen Keller

True happiness is not attained

through self-gratification,

but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

--Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes,

another opens;

but often we look so long at the closed door

that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

--Helen Keller

Independence is happiness.

--Susan B. Anthony

I have found that if you love life,

life will love you back.

--Arthur Rubinstein

There is no duty

we so underrate

as the duty of being happy.

By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

--Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness doesn't depend upon

who you are or what you have,

it depends solely upon what you think.

--Dale Carnegie

I don't know what your destiny will be,

but one thing I do know:

the only ones among you

who will be really happy

are those who have sought and found how to serve.

--Albert Schweitzer

Success is not the key to happiness.

Happiness is the key to success.

If you love what you are doing,

you will be successful.

--Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is a direction,

not a place.

--Sydney J. Harris

We tend to forget

that happiness doesn't come

as a result of getting something

we don't have,

but rather of recognizing

and appreciating what we do have.

--Frederick Keonig

There is only one way

to happiness,

and that is cease worrying

about the things

which are beyond the power of our will.

--Epictetus

When you dance,

your purpose is

not to get to a certain place on the floor.

It's to enjoy each step along the way.

--Wayne Dyer

Hope is itself a species of happiness,

and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

--Samuel Johnson

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

--Abraham Lincoln

Those who wish to sing,

always find a song.

--Swedish proverb

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
--Chinese Proverb

You will never be happier

than you expect.

To change your happiness,

change your expectation.

--Bette Davis

Happiness is like a butterfly which,

when pursued,

is always beyond our grasp,

but, if you will sit down quietly,

may alight upon you.

--Nathaniel Hawthorne

Man is fond of counting his troubles,

but he does not count his joys.

If he counted them up as he ought to,

he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

--Fyodor Dostoevsky

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;

the wise grows it under his feet.

--James Oppenheim

Humor is like a frog.

If you dissect it, it dies.

The best way to cheer yourself up

is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Sanity and happiness

are an impossible combination.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

--US Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident

that all men are created equal;

that they are endowed by their Creator

with certain inalienable rights;

that among these are life, liberty,

and the pursuit of happiness.

The Constitution only guarantees

the American people the right to pursue happiness.

You have to catch it yourself.

--Benjamin Franklin

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

--Michael Jordan

It is neither wealth nor splendor;

but tranquility and occupation

which give happiness.

--Thomas Jefferson

God wishes to see people happy,

amidst the simple beauty of nature.

--Anne Frank

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

--Anne Frank

We all live with the objective of being happy;

our lives are all different

and yet the same.

--Anne Frank

Love is a condition

in which the happiness

of another person

is essential to your own.

--Richard Heinlein

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom.

It should be the first duty of those

who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

--Maurice Maeterlinck

Sometimes

your joy is the source of your smile,

but sometimes your smile

can be the source of your joy.

--Thich Nhat Hanh

There is no cosmetic for beauty

like happiness.

--Lady Blessington

We don't see things

as they are,

we see them as we are."

--Anais Nin

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

--Sophocles

Celebrate the happiness that

friends are always giving,

make every day a holiday

and celebrate just living!

--Amanda Bradley

You cannot always have happiness,

but you can always give happiness.

--Unknown

If you smile when no one else is around,

you really mean it.

--Andy Rooney

Happy people plan actions,

they don't plan results.

--Dennis Wholey

All seasons are beautiful

for the person

who carries happiness within.

--Horace Friess

Carpe diem!

Rejoice while you are alive;

enjoy the day;

live life to the fullest;

make the most of what you have.

--Horace

There is no way to happiness,

happiness is the way.

--Unknown

The greatest part of our happiness

depends on our dispositions,

not our circumstances.

--Martha Washington

The secret of Happiness is Freedom,

and the Secret of Freedom, Courage.

--Thucydides

The secret of happiness is

to make others believe

they are the cause of it.

--Al Batt

What we call the secret of happiness

is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

--Leo Buscaglia

The Secret to a Happy Life is "Work Worth Doing."

--Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

You can choose to be happy or sad

and whichever you choose that is what you get.

--Sidney Madwed

Happiness is a form of courage.

--Holbrook Jackson

Positive things happen

to positive people.

--Sarah Beeny

Living in the moment brings you

a sense of reverence for

all of life's blessings.

What God intended for you

goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

Happiness often sneaks in through

a door you didn't know you left open.

--John Barrymore

Happiness is not an ideal of reason,

but of imagination.

--Immanuel Kant

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones,

you'll start having positive results.

--Willie Nelson

When the power of love overcomes

the love of power,

the world will know peace.

--Jimmy Hendrix

All that we need to make us happy

is something to be enthusiastic about.

--Charles Kingsley

Happiness is liberty

from everything

that makes us unhappy.

--Vernon Howard

But what is happiness except

the simple harmony between

a man and the life he leads?

--Albert Camus

Reflect upon your present blessings,

of which every man has many.

--Charles Dickens

Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future.

--Stephen Hawking

The talent for being happy is

appreciating and liking what you have.

--Woody Allen

There is more hunger for

love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

--Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go.

Let no one ever come to you

without leaving happier.

--Mother Teresa

Every time you smile at someone,

it is an action of love,

a gift to that person,

a beautiful thing.

--Mother Teresa

Happiness resides not in possessions,

and not in gold,

happiness dwells in the soul.

--Democritus

By bringing about a change in our outlook toward things and events,

all phenomena can become sources of happiness.

--Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy,

practice compassion.

If you want to be happy,

practice compassion.

--Dalai Lama

(compassion = a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering)

What a wonderful life I've had!

I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

--Colette

So of cheerfulness or a good temper,

the more it is spent,

the more of it remains.

To fill the hour -- that is happiness.